Sunday, September 26, 2010

Existing iPhone owners may face stiff upgrade cost - Tampa Bay Business Journal:

http://www.anganusa.com/article/What-Soaps-Are-Good-For-Oily-Skin-.html
The prices announced, from $199 for an 16-gigabyte model to $299 for a 32-gigabyted version, only apply to "neww and qualified" buyers. But existing owners who want to swap to the newdeviceds won't get the big subsidy from (NYSE:T), the iPhone'sw exclusive service provider, that new customers will get. They will have to wait untik theirexisting 2-year service contract runs out to get the lowee price. That boosts the price on the new phoneszfrom $199 with a new contract on the 16-gigabytee model to $399.
Upgrading the 32-gigabyted model will cost $499 versus $299 for new This represents a change in policy from when the curreng iPhone 3G was released last year and existing owners were allowecd to upgrade at the same priced asnew customers. When that however, AT&T ends up absorbinf the cost of the new subsidyh on thenew phone, something it apparentlt doesn't plan to do this MG Siegler writes on the TechCrunch "Why this matters is that the dislike of mixed with a not huge update to the iPhone and a highe r subsidized price could be a perfect stor for users that normally would not to.
I probablu will because the iPhone is integral to my work and I could use more speerand power, but the fact that I’m questioninv it should say something. I didn’ty question it for a seconxd last year." A thirc and long-awaited $99 iPhones price for the 8-gigabyte version announced Monday byApplw (NASDAQ:AAPL) appears aimed at luring customers away from the new Palm Pre whose sales began on Saturday. The Pre coste $199 with a $100 mail-in rebatw and a two-year service contracr with (NYSE:S), its exclusivs service provider. Palm (NASDAQ:PALM) said late on Mondayy that sales of the Pre broke its previous records for a new but declined to giveexactg figures.
Analysts estimated that there werebetween 50,000 and 100,00p0 of the devices sold and worried that the companyg could face a problem in keeping up with

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